self.machine

What progress have i made on the various things i have started to work on :

1. Something really cool that i have been working on with a really great partner of mine will be released soon. This is going to change how collaboration works across the internet .

2. The really cool slideshare upload features are done, next comes some really hard core stuff .. which i will definitely blog about so stay tuned…

3. The libpurple stuff was too much fun .. i think i will look at implementing XMPP file transfer for it … i really think that IM fie transfer kinda sucks in libpurple

4. bahh i cant think of anything more … i was though considering making a “widget.com” widget … only an iframe with crap filled in it he he … maybe later

more later …

http://iwphone.contentrobot.com/2007/07/04/iwphone-wordpress-plugin-and-theme/

Awesome plugin to create a iphone compatible wordpress layout …. now my site can be viewed on an iphone without ay layout issues

from the plugin creators :-

“Feature List

• Formats your blog content for optimized viewing on the iPhone.
• Automatically detects the iPhone’s Safari browser and only displays the custom theme to iPhone visitors, other visitors get your standard theme.
• Simple iPhone-like theme with common interface elements that compliments the iPhone’s internal applications.
• Images larger then 300 pixels wide are automatically scaled down to fit the iPhone optimized width.”

Cool presentation … its sarcastic as one of my friends stated … but its fun nevertheless

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial_proverbs.html

Some really interesting proverbs for the entrepreneur in all of us

“Cool ideas are useless without great needs”

“Start with nothing, and have nothing for as long as possible”

“For investors, the product is nothing”

“Great things are made by people who share a passion, not by those who have been talked into one”

Ahh goto run … a new bug to resolve and so much more to think about in my spare time :p

Well like all geeks and nerds i am obsessed about the ranking of my page when i search for “Dipankar Sarkar” , “Dipankar” . The good part is that there are very few “Dipankar Sarkar” to challenge me …. the sad part is that there is some competition on the “Dipankar” space … and i am 12th on that list …

So the challenger’s are : (google term : ‘dipankar’)

1. Dipankar Bhattacharya – http://www.rri.res.in/~dipankar/
2. Dipankar Dasgupta - http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~dasgupta/
3. Dipankar Banerjee – http://www.iiap.res.in/personnel/dipu/index.html
4. Dipankar Raychaudhuri - http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/pub/docs/faculty/RayBio.html
5. Dipankar Das – http://dipankardas.blogspot.com/
6. Dipankar Kasaju - http://dipankar.com.np
7. Dipankar Ghose – http://www.kolkatabirds.com/odipankar.htm
8. Dipankar Dey – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0223336/
9. (Crappy search on HT for Dipankar Gupta)
10. Dipankar – http://www.kuzzuk.net
11. (A bangladesh university ) – www.atishdipankaruniversity.edu.bd

The cool thing is that the top 4 are all research people, which makes sense. They will have publications and research linking to other sites thus increasing their popularity. I cant explain 5 , 7 , 8 , 9 , how exactly have they beaten me on this list. Will need to do a bit more research and see how i can hit top 5 on this list .

The coolest part is that i think google search has started to falter on search results, this is going to open a whole new phase of the search battle. Waiting to see what people at poweset and cuill will do to improve search …. lets see …